Artificial Intelligence (AI)
If a robot could clean your room for you and, if it could wash your dishes, it would be amazing, wouldn't it?
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What is AI?
Artificial intelligence, also known as AI, is a computer system's ability to work like a human. Such as decision-making, visual
perception, speech recognition, translation between languages, etc.
We call robot-like things artificially intelligent because
they're artificially made with human-like intelligence
Where we use AI in our day-to-day life
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1. In smartphones
2. In cars
3. In washing machines
4. In social media
5. In video games
6. In banking
7. In security activities
Even though we're not aware of it we're using AI technology every day!
There are three types of AI
- Artificial Narrow Intelligence
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Artificial Super Intelligence
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Artificial Narrow Intelligence
These machines with weak AI only focus on one task
Examples:- Alphago, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Tesla, Brad, Etc...
Artificial General Intelligence
We're slowly taking steps towards this stage
Examples:-
- Self-driving cars
- Emotech that can detect and respond to human emotions
Artificial Super Intelligence
We are far, far, far away from this step. But still, fictional robots are some examples of robots with super AI
Machine learning is used to achieve AI and deep learning is
a subset of machine learning.
Who made the term Artificial intelligence?
John McCarthy [ In 1956 ] Also he's a visionary computer
scientist
Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045 we will have robots that
are as smart as humans
How technology has made our life easier
- Asking about the weather from Alexa
- Driving a vehicle using autopilot
- Watching a movie using a Netflix
- studying using the online method
How does AI help in health care?
- Improve efficiency in hospitals
- Identify diseases
- Help service providers
- Better treatments
Etc
How does AI in education?
- Teaching the teachers
- Identifying classroom weaknesses
- Parent guardian conversations
How does AI help in banking?
- Improve loan and credit decisions.
- Tracking customer behaviour
- Analyze customer credit histories and Data
AI robots
Digit:- A robot made to deliver packages
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| Digit source: https://www.reddit.com |
Atlas and Spot:- Two of the most popular AI robots in the
world
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| Atlas Source: https://www.evolving-science.com |
HRP 5P:- A robot created to build things
Nuro:- A self-driving vehicle that transports goods safely
and quickly
Fun Facts!
Now there's an AI robot with citizenship known as Sophia
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| Sophia Source: https://www.researchgate.net |
There's a robot known as Omey that reads its owner's emotions
So, Everyone.. The age of AI is at your doorstep!
Article by:
Himaya Perera / himayap2011@gmail.com
Mahamaya Girls' College, Kandy.
Edited by: Isuru Ravisanka